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CAMPBELLTOWN destroyer (1919/1941)


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sister-ship USS Fairfax 1918 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Campbelltown (ex-Campbelltown, ex-Buchanan) I42 78 Bath Iron Wks, USA 6/1918 2.1.1919 1/1919 // 1.1941 to United Kingdom 10.1941 (Campbelltown)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1090

Displacement full, t

1360

Length, m

94.5 wl 95.8 oa

Breadth, m

9.40

Draught, m

2.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

26000

Max speed, kts

35

Fuel, t

oil 275

Endurance, nm(kts)

4300(14)

Armament

3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 3 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (60)

Electronic equipmenttype 141 sonar
Complement

146



Standard scale images


sister-ship HMS<i> St. Albans</i> 1942
sister-ship HMS St. Albans 1942


Graphics


sister-ship<i> </i>USS <i>Fairfax</i> 1918 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
sister-ship USS Fairfax 1918 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Ex-USS DD131 Buchanan: one of 50 American "flushdeckers", transferred to the Great Britain in 1940 in exchange for bases in Western hemisphere, commissioned by RN 9.9.1940 as Campbeltown. 17.1.1941 Campbelltown was transferred to Dutch Navy under the same name.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Campbelltown  15.10.1941 she was returned to RN and 28.3.1942 blown up during St-Nazaire raid.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.